Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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February 21st
| 1591 | Girard Desargues, an inventor of projective geometry, born in Lyon, France.
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| 1699 | Newton elected as only the second foreign member of the French Academy.
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| 1728 | Isaac Greenwood began his "Publick" lectures at Harvard as the first Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. The lectures were open to the entire university.
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